Jim McKay (director)


Jim McKay is an American film and television director, producer and writer.
He has directed episodes of The Wire, Treme, Better Call Saul, Big Love, Criminal Intent and Mr. Robot as well as writing and directing Everyday People and Angel Rodriguez.

Career

For The Wire McKay directed the fourth episode of the fourth season, "Refugees". Show runner David Simon had seen McKay's HBO films and describes them as "masterful, ordinary-life movies" and thought that McKay would be perfect for the series based on their shared characteristics of accumulating drama in small moments. McKay has worked with several cast members of the show on other projects including Reg E. Cathey and Jamie Hector on Everyday People and Wendell Pierce on Life Support.

Filmography

Film
YearTitleDirectorWriterProducer
2018En el séptimo día
2000Our Song
1996Girls Town

TV movies
YearTitleDirectorWriterProducer
2007Life Support
2005Angel Rodriguez
2004Everyday People

TV series
YearTitleEpisode
2025Smoke"Mercy"
2025Smoke"Manhood"
2025Smoke"Size Matters"
2024American Rust"Confessions"
2024American Rust"Faster Horses, Younger Women and More Money"
2024American Rust"The Golden Goose"
2024American Rust"Homecoming"
2022Black Bird"WhatsHerName"
2022Law & Order: Organized Crime"Nemesis"
2020Better Call Saul"Dedicado a Max"
2020Home Before Dark"Search Party"
2020Home Before Dark"The Future Is Female"
2020-2021FBI: Most Wanted"Dysfunction"
2020-2021FBI: Most Wanted"Execute"
2020-2021FBI: Most Wanted"Rampage"
2020-2021FBI: Most Wanted"Hairtrigger"
2019Evil"Vatican III"
2019For The People"The Boxer"
2019The Good Fight"The One Where a Nazi Gets Punched"
2018Quantico"Deep Cover"
2018Better Call Saul"Coushatta"
2018 Instinct"Bad Actors"
2018The Good Fight"Day 436"
2018The Good Fight"Day 415"
2017Quantico"Resistance"
2017The Good Fight"Self Condemned"
2017The Good Fight"Social Media and Its Discontents"
2017Shades of Blue"Chaos Is Come Again"
2017Shades of Blue"Unpaid Debts"
2016Power"Trust Me"
2016BrainDead"Goring Oxes: How You Can Survive the War on Government Through Five Easy Steps"
2016BrainDead"Playing Politics: Living Life in the Shadow of the Budget Showdown - A Critique"
2015Power"Time's Up"
2015Mr. Robot"eps1.4_3xpl0its.wmv"
2015Mr. Robot"eps1.2_d3bug.mkv"
2015The Good Wife"KSR"
2015The Good Wife"Taxed"
2015The Good Wife"Innocents"
2015The Good Wife"Dark Money"
2014 Bosch"Chapter One: 'Tis the Season"
2014Rectify"Mazel Tov"
2014The Good Wife"Trust Issues"
2014The Good Wife"The Last Call"
2013The Good Wife"Red Team, Blue Team"
2013Rectify"Plato's Cave"
2013 Betrayal"...That Is Not What Ships Are Built For"
2013Zero Hour"Sync"
2013The Americans"Safe House"
2013Law & Order: Special Victims Unit"Deadly Ambition"
2012Law & Order: Special Victims Unit"Friending Emily"
2012Law & Order: Special Victims Unit"Home Invasions"
2012Treme"Saints"
2012 Boss"Louder Than Words"
2012Blue Bloods"Reagan V. Reagan"
2011Boss"Slip"
2011Boss"Reflex"
2011The Good Wife"The Death Zone"
2011The Good Wife"Silver Bullet"
2010Treme"Meet De Boys on the Battlefront"
2010Law & Order"Immortal"
2010Law & Order"Four Cops Shot"
2010The Good Wife"Bad Girls"
2010In Treatment"Jesse: Week Seven"
2010In Treatment"Jesse: Week Six"
2010In Treatment"Frances: Week Five"
2010In Treatment"Jesse: Week Four"
2010In Treatment"Adele: Week Three"
2010In Treatment"Jesse: Week Two"
2010In Treatment"Frances: Week Two"
2009The Good Wife"Unprepared"
2009Law & Order"Dignity"
2009Law & Order"Take-Out"
2009Law & Order"Chattel"
2009Hung"The Rita Flower or the Indelible Stench"
2009In Treatment"April: Week Seven"
2009In Treatment"April: Week Five"
2009In Treatment"April: Week Four"
2009Big Love"Empire"
2008Law & Order"Excalibur"
2008Law & Order"Quit Claim"
2008Gossip Girl"The Ex Files"
2008New Amsterdam"Keep the Change"
2008Breaking Bad"Cancer Man"
2007Big Love"Take Me As I Am"
2007Big Love"Dating Game"
2007Law & Order Criminal Intent"Flipped"
2006Law & Order Criminal Intent"Maltese Cross"
2006The Wire"Refugees"